Noda was born in 1948 in
Amagasaki, Japan. He graduated from the
Osaka College of Music as a saxophonist, then pursued advanced music studies at
Northwestern University under
Frederick Hemke and at the
Bordeaux Conservatory under
Jean-Marie Londeix. He is a composer of Japanese saxophone music, and his repertoire also includes Western music of the
baroque,
classical, and
romantic periods. He was twice awarded the
Osaka City Art Festival Prize, and in 1986, he won the
Osaka Prefecture Gold Award. He received the Grand Prix of the
Yamaha Electone Festival in 1989 and the
SACEM Composition Prize in 1973. ==Selected works==